Monday Morning Debrief No.18 - How's your weekend going?

No riding for me. Took kids to see grandparents and had two family days either side. Although just done a little brake testing in the back garden after shortening some hoses and repeated crashes during some drop off practice last weekend.

Night ride tomorrow, first in months due to illness and workload. Cant wait and badly need the miles before a skills day in may.

Not had much luck lately. Went to the lakes a 22nd march - hoping to do Nan Bien. No chance of that with all the snow and end up high with axes and crampons. Went up Thrunton woods yesterday but most of it was un-rideable - managed hp sauce and one of the DH runs ~ not recommended in spd's and frozen ruts
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Didn't get a whole load of riding done this weekend as I've been working, but Friday was a few hours at Woburn with some mates, think another one of them is gonna get into riding which is awesome Then yesterday I did a quick 10 mile road ride to clear my hung over head!

Managed 30 road miles on Friday and 50 on Saturday, then rest/family day/eat chocolate with kids on Sunday. Monday night ride on the Inbred ss 29er, but didn't need lights until last 20 mins and trails were dry and empty, and having only been riding my ss since just before Christmas, mainly at night, i was able to thrash it a bit more and even running it rigid it loved the rooty stuff and just gobbled up some technical stuff! Superb riding but now thinking i need to chop in the Soul for a Solaris.

Took my new bike (Grand Canyon AL 7.9) for its first outings over the long weekend:

Thursday night ride 20 miles over the Purbecks - lovely up and downs
Saturday morning ride 23 miles local trails/singletrack with mates
Sunday morning ride 16 miles solo blast around local trails/woods